Improvement in gages for teaching penmanship



L. D. HARVEY. GAGE Fon'TEAGHING-PENMNSHIP.

No.177`,120. Patented May 9, 187,6.

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UNITED .STATES PATENT OEEIOE.,

LORENZO DOW HARVEY, OF SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAGES FOR TEACHINGVPENMANSHIP.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,120, dated May 9, 1876 application lled March 6, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, L. DOW HARVEY,-ot` Sheboygan, in the county of Sheboygan and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gage for Testing Pen `manship, of which the following is a specificasponding parts.

This invention has for its object to furnish, and consists in, a gage made ot' glass, gelatine, horn, or other transparent, semi-transparent, or translucent substance, having lines cut, scratched, etched, or otherwise represented upon it in such a manner that it may be used for measuring the length, width, slant, and spacing of letters and ligures in writing, as hereinafter fully described.

A represents the gage, which is made of glass, gelatine, horn, or other suitable transparent, semi-transparent, or translucent substance that will allow the letters to be seen through it. The gage A has two parallel lines, B, formed longitudinally upon it, at a distance apart equal to the unit ot' measurement for the lengths of the letters of the system of peumanship used', and at a distance from the edges ofthe gage equal to two spaces, the env tire width of the gage beingthus live spaces, or

equal to the length of the longest letters. At each end of the gage A are formed a number of parallel lines, O, at a distance apart equal to one space or unit for .measuring the width ofthe letters, and at a slant equal to the slant of the letters. In the middle part of the gage A are formed two parallel lines, D, at a distance apart equal to halt' a width space, and

`of the same slant as the lines O. In the middie part ot' the gage A is formed a single inclined line, E, for measuring the connecting slant.

For the Spencerine system of penmanship the lines O D should be at an angle of about fifty-two degrees, (520,) and the line E should be at an angle of about thirty degrees, (300.)

In using the gage A it is applied to the copy, and is then applied to the scholar-s own Writing, and enables him to see his errors, and thus enables him to correct them much sooner than would be possible by a simple inspection of the copy.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1 The writing-gage herein described, consisting of a transparent plate, A, having the horizontal lines B, and the inclined or slanting lines O D E, as and for the purpose set forth.

LORENZO DOW HARVEY.

Witnesses b WM. H. SEAMAN, J W. BENTLEY. 

